Basic Math Skills Teacher Resources

Students listen to story about money or coins, and play game to help them solidify their understanding of money. Students focus specifically on coin value and calculating amounts of money up to fifty cents or above, depending on level.

Young scholars collect data on baseball plays. For this statistics lesson, students graph their data and make predictions based on their observation. They calculate what the probability is that a favorable outcome would happen.

Students compare different types of numbers. Each student is given a flashcard containing a decimal, percent, fraction or integer. Teams of students compete, in silence, to determine who can line up in numerical order correctly. They...

Students play a version of the game tag to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They chase and tag a designated leprechaun who is holding a gold coin.

Seventh graders practice applying the rules of divisibility.

Students investigate the stock market using stock market tables, charts, and graphs. They participate in a simulation of stock market investment over time. They read about the history of Wall Street and the Stock Market.

Students examine the differences in exponential growth and linear growth of a system. They interpret data on graphs and develop their own charts. They answer discussion questions as well.

Students demonstrate problem solving skills. Students complete word problems requiring unit conversions. They convert both metric and standard units. Students must determine necessary information to solve problems.

Pupils plan a voyage as the captain of a tall ship in the early days of exploration and merchant trading. They choose 2 ships and 3 voyages for a total of 6 possibilities. They calculate the number of days and distance of their voyage,...

Students use a spreadsheet to compute landmark statistics of a math quiz. This instructional activity can be ongoing throughout the school year and it integrates mathematics curriculum and technology in a simple format for student use.

Students solve problems by adding.  In this collection of addition lessons, students answer a variety of word problems and utilize addition skills. Links provide access to definitions and sample problems. 

Young scholars conduct an experiment to measure the diameter of the sun. In this astronomy lesson,  students construct a simple equipment to collect scientific data. They calculate the sun's diameter using a given formula.

A fun, yet educational series of online math games to help kids with their basic math skills. Divided by grade levels, and full of animated, interactive math challenges. Click past the membership box to reach all the free games.

A fun, yet educational series of online math games to help kids with their basic math skills. Divided by grade levels, and full of animated, interactive math challenges. Click past the membership box to reach all the free games.

In this activity, students are provided with a list of supplies that survived their plane's crash in the Amazon jungle. They will organize the supplies to classify which items are useful for surviving in the Amazon. Students will use...

In this lesson, 5th graders will determine what supplies they will take with them to survive their trip through the Amazon. Students will use estimation and basic math skills to determine how much they can carry and what they can use to...

Volume 5 in an eworkshop Guide to Effective Instruction in Math outlines and illustrates instructional strategies for teach basic facts and multidigit computation to students in kindergarten through grade 6.

Lono needs help counting animals and berries. Can you help him?

The resource examines the basic math skills needed for studying physics. Some topics include units, scientific notation, significant digits, and trigonometry. Example problems, graphs, and a chapter quiz are included.

This site provides 60-75 math tools designed to help students with basic math skills, such as adding, fractions, and bar graphs. Spanish versions of 10-15 of the printables are provided as well, including several with letters for parents...

This site provides math fact sheets and flashcards for parents and teachers. Access hundreds of pre-generated math sheets, or create custom sheets to meet your own special needs.

Work on math and reading skills with these rhyming word problems. Organized by skill type and difficulty level, these problems let students input answers to instantly check if they are correct.

What's more Thanksgiving than turkey and football? What about turkeys playing football? Turkey Touchdown is a great way for kids to celebrate the holiday and practice their math facts. Kids will choose a level of difficulty, and then...

Math Facts Game is game that allows for a flash card race method to allow students to practice basic math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.